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...right to be playful with the form by becoming some of the best players around. They learned their tricks from "newgrass" innovators such as Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer, then went off in search of even sweeter harmonies and trickier licks. Now success is arriving faster than the Orange Blossom Special. Nickel Creek's video, When You Come Back Down, is in heavy rotation on CMT, and its eponymous debut album cracked the Billboard country Top 20 and earned two Grammy nominations. Says Alison Krauss, herself a former bluegrass prodigy, who produced the band's album: "I can't imagine...
...Cuban Perez Prado got America dancing sideways to mambo and cha-cha rhythms with his own "Patricia" and "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" (a French tune by Louiguy and Jacques Larue). A slew of instrumental hits traded in wanderlust: "Lisbon Antigua" (by Raul Portela, Jose Galhardo and Amaduedo Vale, recorded by Nelson Riddle), "The Poor People of Paris" (Marguerite Monnot's "La Goualante De Pauvre Jean," covered by Les Baxter), "Never on Sunday (Manos Hadjidakis), "Petite Fleur" (composed by expatriate jazz lion Sidney Bechet and Fernand Bonifay, and a 1959 hit for Chris Barber...
...year career, Rove, 50, has worked on hundreds of Republican races throughout the country. So when Bush sits down with congressional leaders, he can nod at Rove and say, "You all know the Boy Genius," and they all do. (Bush's other nickname for Rove is less flattering: Turd Blossom.) Like some of his predecessors--Atwater, James Carville--Rove is turning into a Washington celebrity. When he and his wife Darby step out for dinner, maitre d's offer them private dining rooms. Strangers on the street ask for his autograph. Congressmen drop his name and quote things...
...year career, Rove, 50, has worked on hundreds of Republican races throughout the country. So when Bush sits down with congressional leaders, he can nod at Rove and say, "You all know the Boy Genius," and they all do. (Bush's other nickname for Rove is less flattering: Turd Blossom.) Like some of his predecessors - Atwater, James Carville - Rove is turning into a Washington celebrity. When he and his wife, Darby, step out for dinner, maître d's offer them private dining rooms. Strangers on the street ask for his autograph. Congressmen drop his name and quote things...
JAPAN Japanese do not take Easter off, but the cherry blossom season and its attendant festivals will be in full bloom across the country. Don't miss the candle-lit gatherings in the bigger parks...